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Ein Heldenleben

Webern. Im Sommerwind

The newest album from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, considered one of the world's greatest Strauss ensembles, features Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life) whose US premiere it gave in 1900. The CSO...

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1 CD - CSO Resound CSO9011002

Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink

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CD Ein Heldenleben Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink

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CD 1

Ein Heldenleben, Op.40, The Hero

4:28
Ein Heldenleben, Op.40, The Heros Adversaries

3:22
Ein Heldenleben, Op.40, The Heros Companion

6:49
Ein Heldenleben, OP.40, The love scene

6:31
Ein Heldenleben, Op.40, The Heros battlefield

9:39
Ein Heldenleben, Op.40, The Heros works of peace

5:03
Ein Heldenleben, Op.40, The Heros retirement from the world and fulfillment

11:33
Anton Webern / Im Sommerwind

15:03

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CD Ein Heldenleben Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink

The newest album from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, considered one of the world's greatest Strauss ensembles, features Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life) whose US premiere it gave in 1900.
The CSO pours out a lush interpretation of Richard Strauss's large and complex tone poem in their newest live recording; Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink leads with restraint and allows the strings and woodwinds to sing.
In the famous Battle Scene, the brass and percussion roar, while concertmaster Robert Chen plays his violin solos depicting Strauss's wife with tender beauty.
Webern's early tone poem Im Sommerwind is indebted to Strauss's rhapsodic romanticism, overflowing with spacious melodies.

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink
Robert Chen, solo violin on track 7

The press speak about it

Haitink's 2008 performance of Richard Strauss' big autobiographical tone poem, a longtime CSO signature work, exudes power and refinement, earning it a place of honor alongside the orchestra's previous recordings with Fritz Reiner and Daniel Barenboim. The 20-year-old Anton Webern's lovely little post-Wagnerian idyll makes an unusual bonus.

Chicago Tribune

Technical comments

Original title: Richard Strauss : Ein Heldenleben
1 CD - 1h 2mn 28s
upc/ean. 810449011020
ref. CSO9011002
Also available in SACD: CSO9011004 Release Date: 03/06/2010